installing GNU/Linux, dual-booting
Feb. 20th, 2009 02:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
guslNow that my HD data is as safe as it's going to get (although it's currently unusable), I can go ahead and reformat the partition, and reinstall WinXP (Tablet Edition) from the recovery partition.
Once that's done, this would be a good time to create a partition from which to run GNU/Linux: in case anything goes wrong, little would be lost.
Thoughts:
* I would like a distro/environment that supports my tablet functionality, and is easy to use in every sense
* but since I use Cygwin already, what's the use of having GNU/Linux afterall? I suppose it would good for accessing my files in case Windows won't boot, as happened earlier this month. Also, it would prepare me to escape from the looming clutches of Vista.
* whatever I do, I need to make sure the WinXP recovery partition is still accessible, via F11, hopefully before the boot-screen appears.
Once that's done, this would be a good time to create a partition from which to run GNU/Linux: in case anything goes wrong, little would be lost.
Thoughts:
* I would like a distro/environment that supports my tablet functionality, and is easy to use in every sense
* but since I use Cygwin already, what's the use of having GNU/Linux afterall? I suppose it would good for accessing my files in case Windows won't boot, as happened earlier this month. Also, it would prepare me to escape from the looming clutches of Vista.
* whatever I do, I need to make sure the WinXP recovery partition is still accessible, via F11, hopefully before the boot-screen appears.